By Alison Campsie

Traces of Scotland's earliest residents who lived 10,000 years ago have been found on a new housing development.

The signs of life have been found on land at Guardbridge in Fife close to the River Eden.

It has attracted people since hunter-gatherers roamed the area during the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods , stopping to build fires and knap their flints.

The site continued to attract human activity over the millennia, with evidence of Neolithic farmers, Bronze Age weavers and jewelers and Iron Age fort dwellers also emerging.

Today, people have moved on to the land to take up residence in a mix of two and three-bedroom homes, with up to 335 houses to be built over time.

James MacKay, Managing Director of Persimmon Homes North Scotland, which bui

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